Jérusalem, Sainte-Marie-la-Grande, Vue générale
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
Image: 23.5 x 33.5 cm (9 1/4 x 13 3/16 in.) Mount: 44.9 x 59.7 cm (17 11/16 x 23 1/2 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.373.109
Tags
Art Historical Context
In 1854, photographer Auguste Salzmann captured *Jérusalem Sainte-Marie-la-Grande Vue générale*, a sweeping paper print offering a general of the historic Church of-Marie-la-Grande amid's ancient architecture and ruins. Produced the pioneering Imprimerieique de Blanquart-Évrard in Lille, this image measures23.5 x 33.5 cm and exemplifies early cal photography, using a paper to create the soft, tones characteristic of the era. Salzmann's work emerged during a surge of European fascination with the Holy Land in the mid-19th century, driven by biblical scholarship, archaeology, and colonial explo...
About the Artist
Auguste Salzmann|Imprimerie photographique de Blanquart-Évrard, à Lille · 1824–1872
Born 15 april 1824. Salzmann travelled to Palestine in 1850 to 1851 as a draughtsman for a French expedition to the East. Salzmann returned to Paris, France in 1851 and learned photography which he used as an aid to his archaeological research. In 1853 Salzmann was commissioned by the Ministry of Public Instruction to visit Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and the islands of the Archipelago to photograph ...